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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
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Latest News and Articles:

Gartner: A billion cell phones by 2009 (CNet)
http://news.com.com/Gartner+A+billion+cell+phones+by+2009/
2100-1039_3-5795100.html

Airline Tests RFID on the Fly  (Wired)
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68451,00.html

San Francisco Looks To Wireless Future (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3528086

Colleges Test VoIP Cellphones (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3528766

Mobile Gaming in America on the Up Trend (MobileMag)
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/345/C4476/

Saving the World With Cell Phones  (Wired)
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0%2C1382%2C68485%2C00.html

Mobile Users Are Less Mobile, Survey Finds (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=168602122

Envisioning a Wireless Future (CNet)
http://news.com.com/Envisioning+a+wireless+future/2010-1071_3-5825836.html

Virtual World Fits on a Smartphone (NewScientist)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7869

Panel: Video Snacking On Cell Phones Next Killer App (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=168600642

VoIP Is Just The Beginning, Industry Panel Says (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600082

PluggedIn: Wireless Wallets Come Closer to Reality (Reuters)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=
2005-07-29T185938Z_01_N29440947_RTRIDST_0_TECH-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN-DC.XML 


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Upcoming Conferences and Events endorsed by SIGMOBILE:

** SIGMOBILE members get the same low registration fee as
** members of the organization which is sponsoring the event.


MobileHCI 2005
The Seventh International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services
September 19-22, 2005
Salzburg, Austria
http://mobilehci.icts.sbg.ac.at/

SenSys 2005
The Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
November 2-4, 2005
San Diego, California, USA
http://sensys.csail.mit.edu/

DySPAN 2005
First IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum
Access Networks
November 8-11, 2005
Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, USA
http://www.ieee-dyspan.com/


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Latest Developer Headlines:

Tech Q&A: New options put wireless e-mail within reach (Post Gazette)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05233/555006.stm

Migrating Applications to the .NET Compact Framework c2.0 and Windows Mobile 
5.0 (Developer.com)
http://www.developer.com/ws/pc/article.php/3518326

Opera Announces Browser for Mobile Phones  (Wired)
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Technology&storyId=1074164

Use Obfuscation to Improve the Size, Performance, and Security of Your 
J2ME Applications (DevX)
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/28989

Playing the Game and Winning - Getting Mobile Content to Market 
(WirelessDevNet)
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/articles/pinpoint/index.html